Turret-lathe.



J. HARTNESS & G. A. PERRY.

TURRET LATHE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1911.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

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Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

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TURRET LATHE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1911.

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JAMES HARTNESS AND GEORGE PERRY, QF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT; SAID PERRY ASSIGNOR TO JONES 8e LAMSON MACHINE COMPANY, OF SPRINGEIELD, YEEMONT, A CORPORATION OF VERMONT.

TURRET-LATHEp Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

Application filed September 7, 1911. Serial No. 648,147.

1,056,332, Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, JAMES HARTNESS and GEORGE A. PERRY, citizens of the United States, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont.

;have invented certain new and useful Im or detached metal pieces.

- ited because of the fact that only one piece of work at a time can be turned. Recourse has therefore been had in recent years to,

machines of the multi-spindle type in which a plurality of work-carrying spindles are employed, one set of spindles being rotated about a common axis to bring each piece of work successively into registration with the tools. These machines, however, have been usually employed for bar work, such as in the manufacture of screws and similar small pieces of work, and except for such small work are unreliable and inaccurate in operation because of the practical impossibility of constructing a machine in such manner that all the work-carrying spindles will register with all the tool-carrying spindles with the same accuracy, no practical method of construction or design having been provided in machines on the market to produce a satisfactory adjustment of parts to compensate for the unequal wear which results from the use of the machine.

The resent invention has for its object to ro age a turret lathe with itsinherent sta ility and rigidity of parts and with its nicety of adjustment and yet provided with a plurality of ,work-carrying spindles to permit the turning. or reduction of a plurality of pieces of work of relatively large diameten'such as gearblanks and other pieces of work which are in shop parlance called chucking work. In accordance with this object of the invention We pro vide the headstock of the lathe with two or more work-carrying spindles which are adapted to receive and rotate simultaneously two pieces of work to: be turned,

faced, or otherwise reduced; These spindles are driven by any suitable variable speed gearing by which power may be transmitted to both spindles. with said spindles we employ a separate set of tools for the work carried by each spin-- die, and a fiat turret mounted upon the tool carriage adapted to receive said sets of tools. In .order that the tools may operate upon both pieces of work simultaneously, we find .it desirable to make the turret s uare in plan view whereby both tools may e set at the same distance from the headstock.

It has heretofore been proposed, in one instance, as shown in the patent to Southworth and Cashing No. 116,880, dated July 11, 1871,to provide a turret lathe with a In conj unction' pair of synchronously driven work spindles,

but in this case the machine could be used for only bar work such as in making small screws or like articles, for the tools were located in apertures formed in the peripheral faces of the turret, and no 'provisionwas made for securing a relative transverse movement of the cutters and the work.

The present invention ,is adapted, as previously stat-ed, not only for bar work but also for chucking worlgin which-the pieces of work may be fahed ortaperedor any other like operation performed upon them.

This is accomplished by'moupting the spin dles upon a head which is movable transversely of the bed, so that the two pieces of work may he moved laterally with relation to the tools. Moreover by locating the. cuttors upon the upper face of the turret, we

are able to employ a plurality of outliers for each ncous y, and each performing a-separate operation. i

iece of work, all operatinp simulta-v On the accom anyin drawings,-Figure 1 represents a ront e ovation of a turret lathe embodying the invention. Fig. 2 represents a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section through the head on line,33 of Fig. 2. Fig. e represents a vertical transverse section of the lathe on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1. an end-elevation of the lathe; Fig. 6 represents a, transverse vertical-i section on the line 6 -6 ;p Fig. Eig; 7 representsa Fig. 5 represents" horizontal section through the head on the line T -T oi 1 1g. (3.

work spindles and the driving gear which 1 with gears carried thereby. Figs. 9 and 1t) illustrate respectively a plan i ntermeshes The same reference characters indicate the same or similar parts wherever they occur.

The invention is illustrated as embodied in a lat he in which the relative length feed of the tools and the work is secured by moving the l'flt' lnlltlth-llitl the relative cross teedof the tools and the work is secured by moving the \VHlli-llttltl or carriage, but it is not n'eces sarilv limited to a machine of this character. The bed of the lathe is indicated at 10, and it may be constructed, as ordinarily, with ways or shears 11, 11, on which the tool carriage 12 is adapted to slide longitudinally of the bed. The carriage 12 is provided with a flat rotatable turret 13 adapted to be moved tour steps to complete one revolution upon its vertical. axis. The upper face of the turret is provided with a plurality of right-angled grooves 14;. 15, so that tools may be secured upon the upper face thereof near the corners, as shown in Figs. 9, 10 and 11. The tool slide may be moved longittr dinally of the bed by suitable mechanism, but as this feature of themachine forms no part of the present invention, and any convenient mechanism may be utilized for the purpose we shall not describe it. A suitable mechanism for this purpose illustrated in Letters Patent No. 771.2 12, granted to James: ilat'tncss, October 4, 1901, or in Letters Patent No. 771,212 granted on the same day. .it the end of the lathe the bed is pro .ided with transverse guides or rails 16 on which the work carriage or head 17 is supported and-on which it may be moved transversely or at right angles to the ways or shears 11 on which the tool carriage moves to secure a relative cross-feed of the tools and the work. Instead of sliding on the rails 16 the work carriage is provided with rollers 18 which roll upon the tracks, additional rolls 19, 19, being utilized to prevent upward movement of the head away from the rails. We do not herein claim the specific means for mounting the work carriage upon the bed, as it is set forth and claimed in the co-pending application of James Hartness, Serial No. 647,87 filed September 6, 1911, to which reference may be had for a full description of the rails and rollers.

The work carriage is moved either by hand or by power through the medium ofa Fig. 8 shows the two i b oaeeaa feed screw 20 journaled in the bed and enaging a nut 21 secured upon a bracket 22 depending from the head as shown in Fig. 6. The "forwardly projecting unthreaded end t the screw l. provided with a handle 23 by I which it may be rotated. Any suitable form of mechanism may be utilized for rotating the teed screw by power, such for instance as that illustrated in the copending application ot-James Hartness, Serial No. 648,166, filed September 7. 1911.

construction closed by a top or cover 21 so thatit may contain a suitable lubricant in which the gearing may splash. Two hollow work-carrying tipindles 25, 26, are jourmiled in parallelism in the head in the same horizontal plane, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. On the end of each spindle nearest the tool carriage .there is a chuck or other forin of work holder. such as indicated at 2T, 28, s0 that two similar pieces of work ma; be secured in the two chucks and rotated simultaneously. For convenience, the rear. end of the spindle is jom'nalt-d in a tapered soft metal sleeve or bushing 29 located in'a web :30 which is cast .or otherwise secured in the head or carriage 1.7. The other end of the spindle is mounted in ball bearings indicatcd as a whole at 131, and is held against axial movement b v an anti-friction thrust bearing indicated as a whole at The spindle is held in place by any suitable means, such as collars I33 threaded thereon, as shown in Fig. 3. lnt'it'lentally, the spindle it at its end opposite the chuck is provided with a. belt pulley 31 from which power may be 'trairmittcd to a pulley 35 journaled on the bed, from which power is transmitted to the mechanisms for moving the carriages. Inasmuch as the spindles are hollow they may be provided if desired, with an usual devices for feeding bar work therethroug'h. We have not shown any of these devices as they are common and well known.

The two spindles at their chuck ends are provided with similar large gears 36, 3?, with both of which intermeshes a gear 38 by which both spindles may be driven in unison from the same power transmitting mechanism. Any suitable mechanism may be utilized for this purpose, but we have illustrated and will describe one term of powertransmitting mechanism which we find suitable for the purpose. although it may be varied to suit any particular requirement or to secure the rotation of the spindles at any desired speed.

Inferring to Fig. 7, the prime power shaft; is indicated at 39. It is journa-led in the web 30 and in a second web 40 which is east or securedin the box-like head or carriage. This shaft has on it the'three gears 41, 412, 43, which increase in diameter in the The head or carriage 17 is of a box-like masses order named. Between the prime power meshing with those at 41, 4-2. and 43. Suit-- able clutches, indicated at 50, operated by a controlling rod 51, areutilized to clutch to .the shaft 45 either of the gears 48 or 49.

v tated (see Figs. 4 and 7).

The usual ratchet clutch (which is not shown in detail) is gear 47 with the shaft 45, so that when the two gears 48 and 49 are disconnected from the shaft power will be transmitted to said shaft through the train of gears 41, 47. On the shaft 45 are two additional gears 52, 53, intermeshing with gears'54, 55, on the shaft 46. Either of these two gears may be clutched to said shaft by any suitable form of clutch operated by the rod 56. .The two rods 51, 56, are provided with racks 57, 58, engaged by pinions 59 .and' G0 on vertical shafts 61, 62, which project upwardly through the cover 24'and are provided with handles 63, 64, by which they may be. ro-

The shaft 45' is provided with another gear secured thereon and intermeshing with anddriving a gear 66 on a shaft 67 (see Fig. 6), said shaft ()7 being provided witha pinion 6S inter-meshing with and driving a gear 69 on a shaft 70 shown in dotted lines in said last-mentioned figure. The said gear 69 intermeshes with a gear 71 on the shaft 46. Likewise secured on the shaft 46 there is a gear 72 intermeshingwith a gear 73 on the shaft 44 to rotate said shaft and impart aforward rotation to the spindle. Between the ear 71 and the shaft 46 there is preferaby a ratchet clutch so that the shaft will be rotated by the gear when the two gears 44 and 45 are .unclutched from the shaft.

By" means of" the gea'ring thus far described. the spindles may be rotated forwardly at any one of a plurality of speeds. To cause reverse rotation of the spindles there is upon the shaft 44 a gear 374 with which inter-meshes a gear 75 on ashaft 76 journaled in the cover portion of the boxlike head. The shaft 7 6 is driven by a gear 77 intermeshing with the same gear 72 on the shaft 46.which we have previously re ferred to. The two forward and reverse gears 73, 74 may be clutched alternately to the shaft 44 by any suitable form of clutch operated by a rock-shaft 78 extending through the front of the head or'carriage' and having thereon a handle 79 by which it may be actuated; From this description, it will be apparent that both spindles will be driven in unison at any one of a variety of speeds, and that when the rotation of one is reversed, the other will. be simultaneously reversed by the actuation of the single at. lever 79.

employed for connecting the We have not illustrated the mechanism for rotating the turret upon its axis, which is at an angle to the path of movement ofthe tool slide, as any common mechanism can be utilized for this purpose.

We have illustrated in Figs. 9 to 11 various arrangements of the tools, there being a separate set of tools on he turret for the work carried by each spindle.

Referring to Figs. 9 and 10, the turret is provided with the tools a 0a a and a which are adapted to operate successively upon the work A. which is'held in one of the work spindles. For successive operation upon the work B held in the other spindle, there are tools indicated at b b b and b. The corresponding tools a b simultaneously perform identical operations upon the two pieces of work A B, and.this is true of the. corresponding tools of the two sets (12b a? b, and a 5 Certain of the tools are supported upon the corners of the turret as shown. The tools indicated at (1 b a 5* are provided with facing cutters,'whereas the other tools are provided with cutters or like instrumentalities for operating upon the periphery'of the work.- The precise construction of the tool is unimportant and need not he described in detail, as they are varied in accordance with the character of the work to be performed.

It is not essential that the tool bodies of the two sets of tools should be independent of each other; for instance, in Fig. 11. we

have illustrated the turret as being provided with two sets of tools in which the same bodies support the cutters of two sets. Tn this case,fthe work A- and B is being simultaneously operated on by the cutters indicated at c c and d d. The cutters c 0' belong to the tools of one set whereas. the

cutters d (l' belong to the tools of the other set; and yet all of these cutters are supported upon the same body G; The same body 0 likewise supports the two boring cutters e and f. The cutters referred to are for drilling the bore of the work and 'also roughturning the hub and the periphery of the wheel which'forms the w prk. The cutters indicated at c and (1 form rough facing cuts on the two pieces of work indicated by the dotted lines. The cutters o and (Z finish the bore of the work and form finishing cuts on the periphery of the work; whereas the cutters c (l form'finishing facing cuts. In all of the forms of tools illustrated, it ispossible to accurately locate the cutters which are to oper te successively upon the same piece of war with the greatest accuracy without at all affecting the cutters which are to operate upon the other piece of work.

With the construction as we. have illustrated it, it is possible for an operator to tactically double the output of a turret athe. inasmuch as two piecesof work' may be turned. "faced, or otherwise reduced, at tl a same time and with the greatest nieety of operation. A single rotation of the turret brings both tools whi h are to operate upon the work into position to engage the work. d'hile the output of the machine is greatly increased. we have.' as previouslvg stated. retained the nicely of operation and the stability and rigidity oi the parts Found in turret lathcs. ll'ioreover. we are enabled to u.:% all the various forms of box and other tools which are usable on turret lathes. By removing the chucks we are able to employ work holders and reversible arbors ft'or holding the work. as shown in the co-pendinrw any particular tool. the result is an inaccuracy in the cut due to the impossibility of securing an accurate registration of all the tools and all the pieces of-worh. In this machine, we have illustrated and described. however, each piece of work has its own separate set of tools upon the turret, so that these t ols can he set with the greatest nicety and accuracy to operat upon said piece of work: thus the clrors in practice due, to the imua-uracv 'ot rcgistratimfot the tools and the pieces of work are anoidcd or overcome. The turret carries. as )reviouslv explained, two independent sets 0 tools. the tools ot one set operating upon the work held in one spindle. and the tools of the other set acting upon the work held in the other spindle. and vet both pieces ot work are reduced or cut'at the same time. .\nother advantage ol' thistvpc of machine over the inulti-spindle machine is that when duplicate pieces of work are being turned. the two tools are fed siuiultanetulsly to the same extent by the feeding movement ol' the turret carrier. and consequently the tool carrier is moved only to the extent necessary to make the same cuts.\\'hercas in multi-spindle machines it is always the caso that one tool in perlormine' one kind-of operation must take a longer cut than the other simultaneously operated tool. and thcret'orc the output oi" the machine is limited in time to the interval required to take the longest cut. in other words. it a loni spintllc machine is used in producing a piece on which there are tour kinds of cuts. one of which takes thirt seconds and another one takes one minute. the time in which the machine will turn out pieces is at. the rate oli one per minute, whereas in this machine the output masses thereon. a turret on said carriage n'iovahle about an axis at an angle to the path of travel ot said tool carriage. and having a flat top for the reception of a plurality of simultaneoush operable tools. a head on said bed. a plurality of work spindles joue naled in said head, power-transmitting gearing-for rotating said spindles. means for moxin; said head and therehysaid spindles transversely of the path of movement otf said tool carriage, and a plurality of sets of tools on the top of said turret tor the pieces of work held by said spindles. said sets comprising tools at the several stations of the turret.

la a turret lathe, a bed. a work carriage. a pair of work spindles journaled thereon. means for moving said carriage transversely of said bed, anda power-transmitting mechanism on said arriag'e comlnou to both spindles. in combination with a tool carriage movable on said bed toward and from said hcad,'a turret on said carriage movable about an axis :ngnlar to the path of movement of said carriage, said tur- 1ft having in its top right-angle grooves for the reception of tools and separate sets of tools on said turret, one set for each work spindle, to operate simultaneously and succcssivel on the piet-esof work held in said spindles.

It. lit a turret lathe for performing multiplc operations upon the same piece of work, the combination with a transversely movable head having a plurality of work spindles and means for moving said head transversely. of a carriage. a turret thereon. a separate set of tools on the turret for each piece of work. the tools ot. each set being disposed on the said turret at the various stations to cause the corresponding tools of each stt to operate sinniltaneously on the work t'ttt'l'lttl by the sp ndles, and means for moving said head' transversely. whereb hoth pieces of work may he t'aced or turned simultaneously.

ln te timony whcreot' we have atlixcd our signatures. in presence of two witnesses.

' J.-\l\l l lS llAR'l NllStd. GEORGE A. PERRY. ii t ticsi csi .l. W. WALKER, J. W. Runner. 

